{"id":29264,"date":"2019-05-20T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29264"},"modified":"2019-05-20T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:54:47","slug":"takeaway-boss-has-manslaughter-turned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/20\/takeaway-boss-has-manslaughter-turned\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeaway Boss Has Manslaughter Turned"},"content":{"rendered":"

A takeaway boss was jailed for manslaughter of a schoolgirl who suffered an allergic reaction has won an appeal against his conviction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammed Abdul Kuddus was given a two-year jail sentence in November over the death of 15-year-old Megan Lee, <\/span>after she ordered a meal from his Royal Spice take\u00adaway<\/span><\/a>\u00a0using the Just Eat\u00a0<\/span>delivery<\/span><\/a> website in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

She wrote \u201cprawns, nuts\u201d to highlight her allergies yet the meal contained peanut proteins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Court of Appeal judges, sitting in London, quashed his “unsafe” conviction for gross negligence manslaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Megan suffered a severe allergic reaction and died in hospital two days later on New Year’s Day 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Home Office pathologist concluded her death was caused by a fatal asthma attack precipitated by an allergic reaction to nuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kuddus, the sole director of the takeaway,was convicted of manslaughter by a jury at Manchester Crown Court in October last year, along with manager Harun Rashid, who had previously sold the business to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three leading judges allowed an appeal by Kuddus, of Belper Street, Blackburn, ruling that his manslaughter conviction “cannot stand”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Brian Leveson, announcing the decision, said Megan’s order, including the comment about nuts and prawns, was seen by Rashid.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was “no evidence” that the order printout or comments on her order were “seen by or passed on to” Kuddus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Brian said: “He knew nothing of the allergy which she had declared. “In those circumstances, the conviction for gross negligence manslaughter cannot stand.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the appeal judges overturned Kuddus’ conviction, Sir Brian warned: “There is now a general awareness of the potential risks to those who suffer from allergies and, as a result, it should be understood that the courts will rigorously scrutinise the way in which restaurants discharge the duty of care that they owe such customers.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashid, of Rudd Street, Haslingden, was jailed for a total of three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Brian said no application had been made for a retrial against him on the manslaughter charge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A takeaway boss was jailed for manslaughter of a schoolgirl who suffered an allergic reaction has won an appeal against his conviction. Mohammed Abdul Kuddus was given a two-year jail sentence in November over the death of 15-year-old Megan Lee, after she ordered a meal from his Royal Spice take\u00adaway\u00a0using the Just Eat\u00a0delivery website in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}